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MORE THAN 20 EX-PLAYERS REPORT ABUSE AS FOOTBALL SCANDAL SPREADS

As many as seven professional football clubs are now embroiled in the growing child sex abuse scandal, with more than 20 ex-players alleging they were victims, the head of the players' union has said.

Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) chief executive Gordon Taylor spoke out as the Football Association (FA) stepped up its response to the growing crisis engulfing the sport.

English football's governing body appointed senior lawyer Kate Gallafent QC to assist with its review into historical child sex abuse allegations starting in the 1970s, which have been revealed in recent days.

Theresa May will host a summit meeting with Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo as she attempts to build alliances ahead of the Brexit negotiations.

Ms Szydlo said she would be a constructive partner in the negotiations but warned there would need to be compromise in the talks between the UK and European Union.

Senior ministers from both countries will take part in discussions on security co-operation and strengthening business and cultural links between the UK and Poland.

HARD BREXIT TRADE DEALS COULD TAKE 25 YEARS, MINISTERS ARE WARNED

Ministers will be challenged to rule out a hard Brexit deal by senior MPs from three different parties as a new report highlighted the UK's links to the single market.

Aiming to strike new sector-by-sector trade deals with the European Union after Brexit could take almost 25 years and would risk some parts of the British economy losing out, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) report warned.

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will join Tory ex-minister Anna Soubry and Labour MP Chuka Umunna to present the findings of the research as part of their campaign for the UK to stay in the single market.

Tourists who went to Havana for salsa music and mojitos ended up wandering through a city turned silent by nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro.

As Cuba prepares a massive commemoration for the leader of its socialist revolution, tens of thousands of high-season travellers have found themselves accidental witnesses to history - and smack in the middle of a sombre city that is far from its usual exuberant self.

Tens of thousands of Cubans were expected to return to the streets on Monday after 9am local time when simultaneous 21-gun salutes will sound in the capital and in the eastern city of Santiago, where Castro launched his revolution in 1953.